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Definition: Rapid |
RapidAdjective1. Done or occurring in a brief period of time; "a rapid rise through the ranks". 2. Characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed; "a rapid movment"; "a speedy car"; "a speedy errand boy". Noun1. A part of a river where the current is very fast. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rapid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Geography | A part or reach of a stream with swift and turbulent flow without pronounced falls. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A rapid is a section of a river where it loses much altitude, causing the water current to become very rapid the flow very turbulent. Often the river will be shallow, with rocks sticking up from the surface. When the water splashes over and around the rocks, it mixes with air and takes on a white colour, forming whitewater.The sports of canoeing and kayaking have a grading system for rapids (or a number of systems, varying among countries). Rapids may be classified as follows:
See also rafting for a rafting grading system for rapids.
- Class 1 - no rapids, smooth flowing water
- Class 2 - some rough water
- Class 3 - whitewater but very safe for larger rafts
- Class 4 - whitewater for experienced rafters only
- Class 5 - whitewater for experts only
- Class 6 - impassable
Even with such systems, the meaning and understanding of the word rapids, can vary enormously, depending on the perception, skill level, experience and bravery or foolhardiness of the paddler.
Also, some rivers with huge volumes of fast moving water may require little manouevering, but will pose serious risk of injury or death in the event of a capsize. Other, more technical rivers, may require great skill in negotiating through many rocks, but with low water flows may pose only a low level of danger.
Australia
In Australia, (from memory) the grading system varies from:
- slightly disturbed water surface, no navigation effort required
- quickly flowing water, some skill required to pick and follow a course
- quickly flowing water, considerable skill required to pick and follow a course, definite risk of injury for an unskilled paddler
- sub-extreme
- extreme
- probable death for all the very best and very lucky not sure
See Slso
- whitewater
- wild water
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rapid."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
RAPID | English | Reactor and Plant Integrated Dynamics | Nuclear Energy & Physics |
| RACE | English | Rapid amplification of CDNA ends | Medicine |
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Synonym: RapidSynonym: speedy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Frequency | Adverb: often, oft; ofttimes, oftentimes; frequently; repeatedly; unseldom, not unfrequently; in quick succession, in rapid succession; many a time and oft; daily, hourly; every day, every hour, every moment; |
Instantaneity | Speedy, quick, fast, fleet, swift,lively, blitz; rapid (velocity). |
Adjective: instantaneous, momentary, sudden, immediate, instant, abrupt, discontinuous, precipitous, precipitant, precipitate; subitaneous, hasty;quick as thought, quick as lightning, quick as a flash; rapid as electricity. | |
Obliquity | Acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity; gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent; shelving beach; talus; monagne Russe; facilis descensus averni. |
Sequence | Verb: advance; proceed, progress; get on, get along, get over the ground; gain ground; forge ahead; jog on, rub on, wag on; go with the stream; keep one;s course, hold on one's course; go on, move on, come one, get on, pass on, push on, press on, go forward, move forward, come forward, get forward, pass forward, push forward, press forward, go forwards, move forwards, come forwards, get forwards, pass forwards, push forwards, press forwards, go ahead, move ahead, come ahead, get ahead, pass ahead, push ahead, press ahead; make one's way, work one's way, carve one's way, push one's way, force one's way, edge one's way, elbow one's way; make progress, make head, make way, make headway, make advances, make strides, make rapid strides; (velocity); go ahead, shoot ahead; distance; make up leeway. |
Velocity | Under press of sail, under press of canvas, under press of sail and steam; velis et remis, on eagle's wing, in double quick time; with rapid strides, with giant strides; a pas de geant; in seven league boots; whip and spur; ventre a terre; as fast as one's legs will carry one, as fast as one's heels will carry one; as fast as one can lay legs to the ground, at the top of one;s speed; by leaps and bounds; with haste. |
Hurry; (hasten); accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind. | |
Adjective: fast, speedy, swift, rapid, quick, fleet; aliped; nimble, agile, expeditious; express; active; flying, galloping; Verb: light footed, nimble footed; winged, eagle winged, mercurial, electric, telegraphic; light-legged, light of heel; swift as an arrow; Noun: quick as lightning; Noun: quick as a thought. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rapid |
| English words defined with "rapid": rapid climb, rapid eye movement, rapid eye movement sleep, rapid growth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rapid": Rapid Application Development, rapid excavation, rapid plow, rapid prototyping, rapid scroll. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "rapid": Velocimeter. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Rapid" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Occitan (quick), Romanian (cursory, express, fast, quick, rakish, rapid, spanking, speedy, swift, transient). |
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Screenplays | Chap with the wings -- five rounds, rapid! (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) The rapid reproductive rate of our rabbitshas given me an idea (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) These days you cast rapid, calculating, sidelong glances (Viskningar och rop; writing credit: Ingmar Bergman) In cases of rapid fossilization, I can press this brain scan button retrieving Seymour's memories at the precise instant of doggy death (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rapid Exchange (2003) Ambrose's Rapid Rise (1916) Opening of the Rapid Transit Tunnel (1900) Charge Rapid Fire (1898) Rapid Fire Gun Drill (1898) | |
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Using recombinant DNA technology, a transgenic mouse has been engineered whose bone marrow is protected from the toxic effects of chemotherapy by expression of the MDR 1 gene. This animal system allows rapid screening of drugs which inhibit the multidrug transporter and heralds a new era of using transgenic animals for pharmacologic screening. Multidrug resistance resulting from expression of an energy-dependent drug efflux pump encoded by the human MDR gene is a major impediment to effective cancer therapy. Credit: Jeannie Kelly (artist). | This culture was negative for Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Many rapid tests that identify N. gonorrhoeae, test for a limited number of characteristics, which may be shared by one or more nonpathogenic Neisseria spp.. Credit: CDC. | ||
![]() | NASA Scientists Detect Rapid Thinning of Greenland's Coastal Ice. Credit: NASA. | The Hubble telescope is following dramatic and rapid changes in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere ... Credit: NASA. | |
![]() | Marsh land that has been converted to pasture by cutting canals, building levees , and pumping out water. Exposure to air caused oxidation of organic matter in soil which led to rapid subsidence. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | Smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, a salt marsh plant native to the area is planted in rows to encourage rapid colonization of the restoration area and to prevent erosion of the newly created marsh platform. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | A green laser water penetration system devised by Sylvania Electronic Systems in the late 1970's. Although advertised for fisheries use, this technology has evolved into LIDAR, a system for measuring shallow-water bathymetry and also for into a rapid terrain mapping technique. In: Farooq Hussain, 1970, "Living Underwater, " p. 87. Library Call Number GC65 H8 1970b. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Figure 25. Current meter invented by Thorsten Arwidsson in 1880. Viewing the backside. This instrument was devised for rapid measurement by stationary naval vessels. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
Rogue River - Hellgate Recreation Area. Camp - river left - just above Dunn Rapid. Credit: Becky Brown. | Oregon Trail near Bell Rapid RdCultural resourceHistoric areaLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: W. Meyer. | ||
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| "Rapid Transit Station" by Mark DeFaria Commentary: "Rapid Transit Station - Toronto, Canada." | "Rapid Blur" by Matt 'Fox' Laskowski Commentary: "This was a .9 second exposure I took while going down the highway at about 90 mph." |
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| Rapid bass line moving through octaves with lots of flying object sounds. | Synthesized flute ending with a rapid arpeggio. | ||
| A rapid heart beat. | A rapid vibrato wavering tone produced on a flute-like instrument. | ||
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Alexander Klemin | In the development of no other branch of engineering has scientific work been so intensive or so rapid as in aeronautics. |
George Washington | Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. |
Publius Cornelius Tacitus | All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | With a view to the rapid settlement of claims, due regard shall be paid in the appointment of all persons connected with the Clearing Offices or with the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal to their knowledge of the language of the other country concerned. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | A mind like hers, once opening to suspicion, made rapid progress |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | And Bruno went on in a low, rapid tone, more as if he were talking to himself |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Thanks to the rapid progress of this manufacture, to which he had given such wonderful life, M__ sur M__ had become a considerable centre of business |
A Swiftly Tilting Planet | Madeleine L'Engle | At terra at this fateful hour I call upon all heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lighting with its rapid wrath, And the winds with the swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness, All this I place,By God's Almighty help and grace, Between myself and the powers of darkness |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We boast that we belong to the Nineteenth Century and are making the most rapid strides of any nation |
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Health | The onset can be rapid or gradual. (references) | |
Surgery is a rapid and effective treatment. (references) | ||
This treatment usually brings rapid improvement. (references) | ||
Business | Women continue to make rapid progress in education. (references) | |
The German computer services market is undergoing rapid change. (references) | ||
There has been rapid development of ISDN lines in the past few years. (references) | ||
Children | Bhutan | The Government has demonstrated its commitment to child welfare by its rapid expansion of primary schools, healthcare facilities, and immunization programs. (references) |
Civil Liberties | China | Some observers cite the lack of adequate meeting space in registered churches to explain the rapid rise in attendance at house churches and "underground" churches. (references) |
Discrimination | Bhutan | At the time, the Government claimed that it was concerned about the rapid population growth of and political agitation by the ethnic Nepalese. (references) |
Economic History | Iran | Pre-revolutionary Iran's economic development was rapid. (references) |
Vietnam | However, no foreign chain shows signs of rapid expansion. (references) | |
Guatemala | Guatemala is experiencing rapid political and social change. (references) | |
Human Rights | Afghanistan | The Taliban's rapid fall from power averted a much-feared large-scale humanitarian disaster. (references) |
Barbados | In 2000 the Attorney General created an armed special rapid response unit, which continued to operate during the year. (references) | |
Angola | Also on July 30, members of the Rapid Intervention Police (PIR) pointed a gun at an NGO driver and forced the driver to provide them with transportation. (references) | |
Minorities | East Timor | Residents reportedly targeted the mosque as a result of local animosity toward a Jordanian Rapid Reaction Unit based nearby. (references) |
Political Economy | SPAIN | Spain's mobile telephony market has also experienced a very rapid growth in subscribers. (references) |
Burma | The poor quality of life is also reflected in rising drug abuse and the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS. (references) | |
Trade | Brazil | In FTAA negotiations, Brazil and the U.S. are working on measures to allow more rapid customs clearance. (references) |
Colombia | The decline in usage is due to the relatively unattractive margins involved and the rapid increase in bank liquidity over the last two years. (references) | |
Indonesia | Like Indonesia's import tariff regime, export controls are in a state of rapid change as the government works to implement reforms associated with the IMF program. (references) | |
Travel | Mexico | Upon arrival in Mexico City, the sensation of increased respiration, rapid heart rate, and mild dizziness are normal adaptive processes. (references) |
Malaysia | International telephone service from Malaysia is adequate and more investment is being undertaken to keep up with the very rapid growth in demand. (references) | |
Taiwan | Taipei has five Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) lines, including the Tamshui, Nankang, Chungho, Mucha ad Hsintien, in operation with a combined track length of sixty-seven kilometers. (references) | |
Women | Indonesia | Experts on the subject agree that the number of incidents has risen since the onset of the country's economic downturn starting in mid-1997, which has been aggravated by social changes associated with rapid urbanization. (references) |
Worker Rights | Congo | This system broke down in 1991 as a result of the rapid depreciation of the currency. (references) |
China | In the view of some observers, this fact helps explain the rapid rise in the number of arbitration cases. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the Mayflower and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral. |
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Rush Limbaugh | Greg Holloway galvanized an international meeting of Arctic scientists Tuesday by saying there is little evidence of a rapid decline of the volume of ice in the northern oceans. |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | In a cultivation of the materials and the extension of useful manufactures, more especially in the general application to household fabrics, we behold a rapid diminution of our dependence on foreign supplies. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This sum can, in my judgment, be now usefully applied to proposed improvements in our navy yards, and to new national works which are not enumerated in the present estimates or to the more rapid completion of those already begun. |
Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | Fifty years ago its rapid failure was boldly predicted. |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | Commerce, education, and rapid transit of thought and matter by telegraph and steam have changed all this. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Rapid demobilization inevitably means further overcrowding. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Congress can reinforce this confidence by insuring that its procedures permit rapid action on temporary income tax cuts. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Soon after my election, through an individual who is directly in contact on a personal basis with the leaders of North Vietnam, I made two private offers for a rapid, comprehensive settlement. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Our forces will be prepared for rapid deployment to any region of strategic significance. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We are ready to support a political solution that guarantees the rapid withdrawal of all Soviet troops and genuine self-determination for the Afghan people. |
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| "Rapid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.74% of the time. "Rapid" is used about 3,492 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.74% | 3,413 | 2,829 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.03% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.2% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adverb (general) | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,492 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "rapid". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Aphek | N/A | Biblical | A rapid torrent |
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| Country | Name |
| Ireland | Rapid Technology Group plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "rapid": in rapid succession ♦ make rapid progress ♦ mass rapid transit ♦ rail rapid transit ♦ rapid Application Development ♦ rapid as electricity ♦ Rapid City ♦ rapid climb ♦ rapid course ♦ rapid deployment force ♦ rapid deployment forces ♦ Rapid Expert Assistance and Cooperation Teams ♦ rapid eye movement ♦ rapid eye movement sleep ♦ rapid fire ♦ rapid fire of questions ♦ rapid fire questions ♦ rapid firing ♦ rapid flow ♦ rapid growth ♦ rapid inflation ♦ rapid prototyping ♦ Rapid River ♦ rapid road ♦ rapid scroll ♦ rapid search ♦ rapid shutdown ♦ rapid slope ♦ rapid stream ♦ rapid subsurface flow ♦ rapid transit ♦ rapid translation system ♦ rapid transmitter ♦ Rapid Valley ♦ rapid velocity ♦ with rapid strides. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rapid": rapid-access, rapid-action, rapid-breeding, rapid-deployment, rapid-eye, Rapid-fire, Rapid-fire mount, rapid-fire pistol, rapid-fire rifle, Rapid-firing, rapid-fit, rapid-flowing, rapid-growth, rapid-migration, rapid-response, rapid-scoring, rapid-strike, rapid-transit, rapid-turnover. | |
Ending with "rapid": over-rapid, too-rapid. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
grand rapid mi | 4,734 | big rapid michigan | 277 |
rapid city sd | 1,928 | dallas area rapid transit | 273 |
cedar rapid iowa | 1,904 | roanoke rapid north carolina | 223 |
grand rapid press | 1,154 | colorado rapid | 190 |
grand rapid | 777 | rapid city hotel | 170 |
rapid city journal | 717 | grand rapid hotel | 119 |
grand rapid mn | 655 | grand rapid real estate | 115 |
bay area rapid transit | 647 | grand rapid minnesota | 112 |
cedar rapid gazette | 618 | daily rapid tribune wisconsin | 111 |
wisconsin rapid wi | 603 | cedar rapid kernel | 107 |
rapid weight loss | 600 | grand rapid escort | 101 |
rapid city | 549 | rapid application development | 100 |
grand rapid michigan | 513 | pelican rapid minnesota | 100 |
rapid city south dakota | 482 | wisconsin rapid | 100 |
park rapid minnesota | 450 | blaster rapid | 99 |
grand rapid community college | 450 | rapid city regional hospital | 97 |
rapid | 393 | city of grand rapid | 89 |
cedar rapid | 369 | grand library public rapid | 88 |
rapid water park | 319 | park rapid | 81 |
rapid prototyping | 313 | grand rapid newspaper | 80 |
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| Language | Translations for "rapid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vinnig (fast, quick, quickly, speedy, swift, swiftly), haastig (fast, hurried, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Albanian | shumë i pjerrët, i shpejtë (agile, arrowy, brisk, dashing, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, fleet of foot, fleet-footed, fleeting, flying, hasty, imminent, mercurial, prompt, quick, smart, spanking, speedy, swift, volant, wanton, winged, wing-footed), i rrëpirët (bluff, hilly, precipitous, sharp, steep), i menjëhershëm (immediate, impulsive, instant, instantaneous, momentary, prompt, quick). (various references) | |
Arabic | منحدر النهر (rapids), سريع (brisk, clipping, express, expressible, fast, feathered, fleet, flier, hasty, momentary, nippy, precipitate, prompt, quick, rattling, ready, rife, smart, snappy, speed, speedy, swift), عاجل (accelerate, hasten, immediate, instant, precipitate, prompt, speedy, summary), خاطف (cursory, hijacker, kidnapper, momentary, pirate, ravisher, swift). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стръмен (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bluffy, declivitous, high pitched, humpbacked, prone, steep), рязък (abrupt, acid, bitter, brief, brusque, curt, gravelly, hard, incisive, jarring, jerky, metallic, offhand, pipy, point blank, rude, sharp, short, short-spoken, shrill, snappish, snappy, snippy, stark, straight out, strident, trenchant), краткотраен (deciduous, ephemeral, fleeting, fugacious, momentary, perishable, short, transitory, unabiding), много бърз (double quick, flying, lighting), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slapdash, slippy, smart, spanking, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed). (various references) | |
Catalan | ràpid (fast, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Chinese | 迅速 (fast, speedy). (various references) | |
Czech | rychlý (expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, high speed, nippy, quick, ready, spanking, speedy, sweeping, swift, wing-footed), rapidní (fast), slapy (tide), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), peřeje (rapids), dravý (ferocious, fierce, predacious, predatory, rapacious), bouřlivý (blustery, boisterous, choppy, effervescent, fierce, franetic, gusty, loud, roaring, squally, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, tumultuous, uproarious, wild). (various references) | |
Danish | hurtig (fast, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Dutch | spoedig (fast, quick, soon, speedy, swift), snel (fast, quick, quickly, speedy, swift, swiftly), haastig (fast, hastily, hurried, hurriedly, in a hurry, quick, speedy, swift), gezwind (fast, quick, speedy, swift), gauw (fast, quick, quickly, soon, speedy, swift, swiftly). (various references) | |
Esperanto | rapida (fast, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Faeroese | skjótur (fast, quick, speedy, swift), kvikur (fast, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Farsi | چابک (Adroit, Agile, Brisk, Clever, Handy, Light, Lissome, Nimble, Perky, Quick, Speedy, Spry, Swift), تندرو (Extrimist, Fast, Racer, Speedster, Swift), تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Hasty, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Paregoric, Peppery, Presto, Pungent, Quick, Racy, Rash, Slush, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Virulent, Wrench, Yare), سریع العمل , سریع (Precipitate, Prompt, Quick, Speedy, Sudden, Swift). (various references) | |
Finnish | nopea (fast, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
French | rapide, rapides (rapids). (various references) | |
Frisian | fluch (fast, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
German | schnell (apace, expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, hurry, prompt, quick, quickly, rapidly, rapids, slippy, smart, smartly, soon, spanking, speedily, speedy, swift, swiftly), rasch (brisk, fast, hasty, quick, quickly, rapidly, rash, smart, smartly, speedy, swift, swiftly). (various references) | |
Greek | γρήγοροσ (cursory, fast, hasty, quick, swift), γρήγορος (fast, prompt, quick), γοργός (quick, speedy), ταχύρρευμα, ταχύσ (cursory, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, flying, precipitate, presto, prompt, quick, spanking, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מהיר (fast, fleet, nimble, nippy, quick, snap, spanking, speedy, summary, swift), שוטף (current, flowing, fluent, swift, torrential), אשד (cascade, cataract, chute, waterfall). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyors (agile, current sale, expedite, expeditious, expenditious, expidite, express, facile, fast, fleet, flighty, hasty, high speed, hit and run, laxity, nimble, nimble-footed, nippy, presto, prompt, quick, quick as thought, rash, ready, snap, spanking, speedy, sudden, swift, tantivy), sebes (fast, nimble-footed, spanking, speedy, sweeping, swift, to go like the wind, to trot out, wounded). (various references) | |
Icelandic | hratt (fast, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pesat (speedy), laju (fast, rate), cepat (brisk, dapper, express, fast, prompt, quick, speedy, swift), aliran deras. (various references) | |
Irish | tapaidh (fast, quick, quickly, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Italian | rapido (abrupt, cursory, expeditious, express, fast, flying, hasty, quick, smart, speedy, sweeping, swift). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 迅速 (fast, prompt, quick, swift). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゅうそく (pace, relaxation, relief, rest, resting, speed of a pitched ball), じんそく (fast, prompt, quick, swift), はかばかしい (quick, satisfactory, swift). (various references) | |
Korean | 급속한. (various references) | |
Malay | lekas (fast, quick, speedy, swift), jepat (fast, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Manx | tappee (allegro, express, hasty, perfunctory, quick, quick-acting, speedy, swift), bieau (express, quick). (various references) | |
Norwegian | hurtig (fast, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Papiamen | rápido (fast, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apidray.(various references) | |
Polish | szybki (fast, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Portuguese | rápido (active, clear-sighted, crisp, double-quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleet-footed, light-legged, nimble, nippy, prompt, quick, rattling, riffle, speedy, sudden, swift, swift-handed, tantivy, tripping, volant, winged). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | rápida. (various references) | |
Romanian | repede (anon, apace, brisk, briskly, early, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hurried, in the same breath, quick, quickly, rapidly, rash, smartly, soon, speedy, sudden, swift, swiftly, winged). (various references) | |
Russian | быстрый (agile, expedite, expeditious, fast, fast-moving, fleet, flying, hasty, light, lively, nimble, prompt, quick, rath, rathe, sharpish, slippy, smart, snappy, spanking, speedy, straightaway, swift, tantivy, winged, wing-footed). (various references) | |
Scottish | luath (ashes, fast, fleet, meaning `speedy', quick, soon, speedy, speedy : cho luath 's a, swift), bras (fast, impetuous, keen, quick, rash, speedy, swift, vehement). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rapidan (fast), ubrzan (accelerated), brz (cursory, expeditious, fast, fleet, high speed, nippy, prompt, quick, repartee, spanking, speedy, swift, tantivy, tripping). (various references) | |
Spanish | rápido (agile, darting, express, express train, fast, fast train, fasting, fleeting, heel bar, live, lively, nippy, prompt, quick, quick fire, quick-firing, rapids, rathe, rattling, riffle, shoot, short, slapping, slashing, slick, snappy, spanking, speedy, swift, swift-flowing, twinkling). (various references) | |
Swahili | -epesi (fast, light, quick, speedy, swift), epesi (fast, light, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Swedish | snabb (adroit, clipping, darting, double quick, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, fleeting, hurried, lightsome, precipitatious, precipitous, presto, ready, smart, spanking, swift). (various references) | |
Tagalog | matúlin (fast, quick, speedy, swift), madalî (easy, facile, fast, quick, speedy, swift), mabilís (fast, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Thai | รวดเร็ว (quick, summary). (various references) | |
Turkish | seri (battery, chain, crash, cycle, fast, fleet, high speed, quick, sequence, serial, seriate, series, set, sharp, speedy), sarp (abrupt, arduous, bluff, craggy, jagged, precipitous, rugged, scarped, steep, stiff), hızlı (crash, expeditious, express, fast, fastmoving, fleet, frequent, hasty, high speed, impetuous, light footed, nippy, precipitous, presto, quick, quick-action, rakish, ready, snappy, speed, speedy, swift, winged, zippy), dik (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bold, erect, horny, jagged, perpendicular, precipitous, right, rough, scarped, sheer, Square, stand up, steep, stiff, straight, up, upright, uprightly, upstanding, vertical), ani (abrupt, ejaculatory, flash, instantaneous, memory, recollection, snap, sudden), acele (bustle, discomposedly, dispatch, early, expedition, fast, flying, haste, hastily, hasty, hotfoot, hurried, hurriedly, hurry, hurry up, in a hurry, in haste, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, press, pressing, quick, rush, speedy, swift, too previous, urgency, urgent, whirl), çabuk (apace, be quick, come, come on, early, expeditious, fast, hasty, hurry, hurry up, in double time, in good time, light footed, lissom, lissome, nimble, precipitous, presto, prompt, pronto, quick, quick-action, quickly, ready, sharp, snappy, soon, speedy, swift, swiftly), ışığa hassas. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | швидкісний (clipping), швидкий (agile, arrowy, dapper, double quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleeting, hasty, nippy, precipitate, present, prompt, quick, snappy, spanking, speedy, summary, swift, whipping, zippy), крутий (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bluffy, craggy, sharp, steep), бистрина (overfall), поріг ріки. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhanh chóng (apace, quickly), nhanh (apace, brisk, cursory, quick, quickly, short order, tearing, transient, volant). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwyllt (mad, savage, wild), cyflym (fast, quick, speedy, swift), chwyrn (swift), buan (fast, fleet, quick, soon, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
Yucatec | seebak (fast, quick, speedy, swift), seeb (fast, quick, speedy, swift). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | alacer, celer, celeres, celerius, celox, citiorum, citius, cito, levis, rapidus, veloce, velocem, veloces, veloci, velociores, velocissimus, velocium, velocius, velox, volubilis. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | cursoire. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rapid": rapider, rapidest, rapidities, rapidity, rapidly, rapidness, rapidnesses, rapids. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rapid": ultrarapid. (additional references) | |
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"Rapid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apid, Arpi, racid, ragid, rahid, raidh, rajid, rampid, rapax, rapaz, rapd, Raphia, rapi, rapic, rapide, rapig, rapin, rapis, rappy, ravid, reapid, redip, rehid, Rephidim, repide, reqid, ropic, rupia, Ruppia, zapid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rapid" (pronounced ra"pud) |
| 4 | -a" p u d | vapid. |
| 3 | -p u d | bicuspid, Cupid, intrepid, lipid, stupid, tepid, torpid, tricuspid. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: padri, pardi. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-p-r" | |
-1 letter: arid, drip, padi, paid, pair, pard, raid. | |
-2 letters: aid, air, dap, dip, pad, par, pia, rad, rap, ria, rid, rip. | |
-3 letters: ad, ai, ar, id, pa, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-p-r" | |
+1 letter: diaper, diapir, paired, pardie, rapids, repaid, sparid. | |
+2 letters: airdrop, aspired, despair, diapers, diapirs, digraph, dipolar, diptera, dispart, draping, padroni, pagurid, pardine, parodic, parodoi, parotid, parried, partied, peracid, peridia, picador, pirated, poniard, praised, predial, prepaid, pyralid, pyramid, raphide, rapider, rapidly, sparids, sparoid, upbraid. | |
+3 letters: adscript, airdrops, airspeed, apprised, apprized, bediaper, biparted, deprival, despairs, diagraph, diapered, diapiric, diaspora, diaspore, didapper, digraphs, dioptral, dipteral, dipteran, disparts, dispread, epidural, eupatrid, firedamp, handgrip, hardship, impaired, imparked, imparted, kidnaper, lampyrid, lapidary, myriapod, overpaid, pagurids, paillard, panfried, paradigm, parading, paradise, paranoid, parodied, parodies, parodist, parotids, parotoid, parridge, parslied, pedalier, peracids, peridial, picadors, picrated, pilchard, pillared, podagric, podiatry, poniards, praedial, prandial, preadmit, preaudit, presidia, prodigal, pyralids, pyramids, pyranoid, raindrop, raphides, rapidest, rapidity, rapiered, repaired, shipyard, spandril, sparoids, spiraled, sporadic, sprained, traipsed, tripedal, tripodal, unpaired, unrepaid, upbraids, upraised, wardship. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Derived from 18. Names: Company Usage 19. Expressions 20. Expressions: Internet | 21. Translations: Modern 22. Translations: Ancient 23. Abbreviations 24. Acronyms | 25. Derivations 26. Rhymes 27. Anagrams 28. Bibliography |
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